Help Jessie eat again(surgery&bone grafts)
Hi! My name's Jessie.
I'm 29 years old and a mother to a beautiful 2 year old baby girl, named Jade.
I've never been the type of person to ask for help, especially with anything that involves money,
but I've come to a point in my life where I don't know what else to do.
I'm here to humbly ask for help with a very expensive surgery I desperately need.
I'm struggling to eat anything, at all. I have been surviving off a "soft diet" for years.
So, I can't really eat anything of value that my body needs to function healthily and normally.
Every meal is a struggle for me and now has become a very stressful thing,
just to think about needing to eat makes my heart race.
I'm continually losing weight and barely staying above 100 pounds at 5'5".
I need extensive dental surgery, including bone grafts and fusing metal posts to my bones in order to restore my teeth. It will be at least 2 to 3 hours of surgery and about 6 months of healing.
All of my back teeth are gone, due to them becoming infected and eventually abscessing one by one until having to have them removed due to the severe amount of pain and infection. At one point I was hospitalized for 4 days to receive iv antibiotics because the infection became so bad.
So, the few teeth I have left in the front, five to be exact, are now deteriorating also.
The prior solution of using partials that clipped to my existing teeth to help me eat is no longer an option for me.
This has been such a HUGE part of my life for years, causing me so much physical and emotional stress. I don't feel like myself anymore, I look in the mirror and see a stranger. My face has changed drastically due to my bones rapidly deteriorating and my periodontist informed me it will continue to happen without the posts fused into my bones. Regular dentures aren't an option for me either due to the bone loss and what I will continue to lose without this surgery.
I used to be confident, outspoken and always laughing!
Now, I don't smile, I don't laugh, or even talk much whether at home or in public because I'm always trying to hide my teeth.
I so desperately want to be able to eat normally, talk normally, and also smile and laugh again!
My daughter needs me to be not only healthy, but happy and that is truly all I need and want.
Please help me, if you can, to gain my health, confidence and happiness back!
I JUST WANT TO BE MYSELF AGAIN!
Thank you so much for taking the time to read this ❤️



I just want to be able to smile like this again!



I'm 29 years old and a mother to a beautiful 2 year old baby girl, named Jade.
I've never been the type of person to ask for help, especially with anything that involves money,
but I've come to a point in my life where I don't know what else to do.
I'm here to humbly ask for help with a very expensive surgery I desperately need.
I'm struggling to eat anything, at all. I have been surviving off a "soft diet" for years.
So, I can't really eat anything of value that my body needs to function healthily and normally.
Every meal is a struggle for me and now has become a very stressful thing,
just to think about needing to eat makes my heart race.
I'm continually losing weight and barely staying above 100 pounds at 5'5".
I need extensive dental surgery, including bone grafts and fusing metal posts to my bones in order to restore my teeth. It will be at least 2 to 3 hours of surgery and about 6 months of healing.
All of my back teeth are gone, due to them becoming infected and eventually abscessing one by one until having to have them removed due to the severe amount of pain and infection. At one point I was hospitalized for 4 days to receive iv antibiotics because the infection became so bad.
So, the few teeth I have left in the front, five to be exact, are now deteriorating also.
The prior solution of using partials that clipped to my existing teeth to help me eat is no longer an option for me.
This has been such a HUGE part of my life for years, causing me so much physical and emotional stress. I don't feel like myself anymore, I look in the mirror and see a stranger. My face has changed drastically due to my bones rapidly deteriorating and my periodontist informed me it will continue to happen without the posts fused into my bones. Regular dentures aren't an option for me either due to the bone loss and what I will continue to lose without this surgery.
I used to be confident, outspoken and always laughing!
Now, I don't smile, I don't laugh, or even talk much whether at home or in public because I'm always trying to hide my teeth.
I so desperately want to be able to eat normally, talk normally, and also smile and laugh again!
My daughter needs me to be not only healthy, but happy and that is truly all I need and want.
Please help me, if you can, to gain my health, confidence and happiness back!
I JUST WANT TO BE MYSELF AGAIN!
Thank you so much for taking the time to read this ❤️



I just want to be able to smile like this again!


Fundraising team (3)
Jessie Bishop
Organizer
Raised $175 from 3 donations
Kent, OH
Joshua Boettler
Beneficiary
Michelle Holt
Team member
Raised $100 from 1 donation